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Family Planning in India and Pakistan
Chrtková, Sylvie ; Kocourková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Fialová, Ludmila (referee)
Family planning in India and Pakistan Abstract The world's population continues to grow, and the highest growth rates and population growth are recorded in lower-income countries, mainly in South and Southeast Asia. The key strategy for reducing the rate of growth and birth rate in these countries are family planning programs. Their main goals is the support of women, reproductive health, or the right of couples to freely decide on the number of children and the spacing between them. The aim of the work is therefore a comparison of family planning programs in India and Pakistan, i.e. countries in which family planning programs have been operating for more than 60 years, but their growth rate is still very high. The work compares the population development of the studied countries, the knowledge and use of contraceptive methods by married women aged 15-49 and tries to answer questions regarding the evaluation of the effectiveness of family planning programs in India and Pakistan. Data from the general Demographic and Health Survey and data from the World Bank database are used for the analysis. As part of the analysis, graphic elements and descriptive statistics are used. Binary logistic regression was used to analyze satisfaction with family planning programs. The results of the work showed that the family...
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Comparison of abortion and contraceptive behaviour in 2009 and 2019 in selected European countries
Idlbeková, Bára ; Kocourková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Fait, Tomáš (referee)
Comparison of abortion and contraceptive behaviour in 2009 and 2019 in selected European countries Abstract The main objective of this thesis is to determine to what extent abortion behaviour contraceptive patterns have changed from 2009 to 2019 in selected European countries. The first chapter discusses the aims, research questions and structure of the thesis. The second chapter contains the theoretical framing of the thesis and focuses on basic information about abortion in the context of the 2nd demographic transition, opinion trends, legislation and last but not least contraception. In the third chapter, resources and methodology are presented. In the analytical part of the thesis, Chapter 4 outlines the level of abortion rates among European countries and then conducts a cluster analysis in order to detect groups of countries with similar abortion behaviour and to identify patterns of abortion behaviour in 2009 and 2019. From the resulting abortion patterns, representatives of each group of patterns were selected and their abortion rates and contraceptive prevalence were compared graphically. The last chapter of the analytical part of the thesis examines societal attitudes towards justification of abortion, where the relationship of social factors (gender, age, education, religious beliefs and...
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Reproductive health and induced abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Komrsková, Lucie ; Kocourková, Jiřina (advisor) ; Fialová, Ludmila (referee)
Reproductive health and induced abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean Abstract The objective of this study is to give a comprehensive overview of the reproductive health of the population living in Latin America and the Caribbean, and to evaluate the level of induced abortion in the region at the same time. In the theoretical part of the study the term reproductive health is defined and indicators evaluating its level are described. As well the difference between safe and unsafe abortion is explained and the state of abortion law is expounded in this part. Next part is devoted to the promotion of family planning programs. In the analytical part Latin American and Caribbean countries are divided into four groups by using cluster analysis. Within each group one selected country is characterized in more detail. Indicators entering into the analysis show the level of reproductive health, the level of fertility and the economic performance of countries in the early 21st century. In the part related to the induced abortion rate in the region is discovered that despite the fact that in Latin America and the Caribbean there is one of the highest levels of contraceptive prevalence, there is also the highest level of induced abortion in the world. In the last part of the study the relationship between level of...
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